Sniffing out VR innovations
An Arizona State University undergraduate research project to add smell to virtual reality will help make occupational training more immersive.
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Resilience in materials and in life
For decades, ASU’s Aditi Chattopadhyay has endeavored to create responsive, durable materials.
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Autonomy isn’t autonomous
Robots and artificial intelligence are growing more and more autonomous. But they still need to work smoothly with humans to be effective.
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How rattlesnakes’ scales help them sip rainwater from their bodies
Konrad Rykaczewski and faculty from ASU’s Biomimicry Center investigated how the...
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Staying ahead of cyberattacks
During National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, ASU’s Paulo Shakarian shares how he and other researchers are using cybercriminals’ weaknesses against them
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Robotic guide dog leads ASU team to first prize at Intel Cup
An ASU team developed a technologically savvy robotic guide dog that recently won a first-prize award at the 2018 Intel Cup in Shanghai, China.
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A Nanoparticle and an Engineer Walk into a Lab: Using Nanotech to Purify Water
On World Water Day, Fulton Schools Regents’ Professor Paul Westerhoff explains how global water challenges are being tackled with nanotechnology.
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Klaus Lackner’s ASU KEDtalk: Carbon is a terrible thing to waste
Klaus Lackner, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering professor of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering and director of Arizona State University’s Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, asks “We clean up our trash. Why not clean up after our carbon use?” in an ASU KEDtalk hosted by ASU’s Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development.
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Kambhampati, fellow experts discuss human-machine collaboration, AI design
Professor Subbarao Kambhampati joined fellow AI experts for a discussion with the Computer Science Museum on human-machine collaboration and how it affects the way AI tools are developed.
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Ted Pavlic urges scholars to be undisciplined in TEDxASU talk
Assistant Professor Ted Pavlic recounts his early days as a graduate student to illustrate how to drive innovation by being undisciplined.
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Materializing the ghost in the machine
“The hard part in neuralprosthetic science is the interface, getting the prosthetics to talk to the nerves,” says Bradley Greger. “It’s not just telling the fingers to move, the brain has to know the fingers have moved as directed.”
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Expect the unexpected: Autonomous car project prepares engineers for industry challenges
In the robotics industry, engineering isn’t easy, so a professor is teaching his computer systems engineering students to work with difficult and unpredictable sensors and situations.
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